The odd scrap of clothing, but nothing that hasn't been there for months,' Thomas said, his Welsh accent somehow rendering the depressing news cheerful.

And many believe that the pills will somehow render them immune to the damage wrought by unhealthy habits.

I froze, as though not moving might somehow render me invisible.

'Her eyesight's not too good now,' she continued, as though that might somehow render her mother's behaviour less odd, as though by mere words she could be converted into a harmless, ordinary, ageing old lady, just like other people's mothers.

To watch him work is to see an actor who seems to do nothing while somehow rendering himself hard to forget.

Nearly all of them either render or somehow refer to the figure, in key with the ruggedly humanist sentiments that Joannou has advanced through his Deste Foundation, in Athens, which produces exhibitions and publications on giddy, pop-philosophical themes.

She had seen an occasional sloe-eyed graceful female heavy with pregnancy, somehow rendered more graceful, more dignified in her fecundity.

He goes through the motions of striking a match and proceeds to meticulously wear white gloves and a white mask, somehow rendering an eerily chilling effect.

He was followed by a 7-year-old husky-malamute, a dog that countenanced the entire battery of assessments with such a world-weary calm that he somehow rendered us, the testers, the species under examination.